silt up

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   become chocked with silt

   “The river silted up”

   Synonymssilt

   Broaderclog

Questions about silt up

What does silt up mean?

silt up means "become chocked with silt".

What is another word for silt up?

Close synonyms include silt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is silt up a common word?

silt up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.